showcase new york issue 602

Jun 2016

Welcome to Showcase New York, brought to you by Production Paradise. This issue features some of the leading photo and film production companies, photographers, DoPs, photo post production companies, fashion stylists, rental studios for photo and film productions and photographers' associations currently working out of New York.

You can find more creative professionals and facilities for photographic and film production in our New York Photo and Film directories.

Gloss PostProduction is a creative image retouching and CGI studio with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Hamburg and Berlin.

The company's extensive portfolio includes prominent campaigns in the automotive industry as well as product, lifestyle, beauty, fashion and environmental.

"With great attention to detail, and a client tailored creative process, we are well known for our quality retouching and the ability to handle campaigns of all shapes and sizes. Our portfolio has been exponentially growing over the past years, with an extremely diverse body of work that shows our range of abilities in the retouching and CGI industry. Our style is unique and so is our customer service. We emphasize building close and lasting relationships and have proven to grow side by side our creative collaborators."

Cindi Blair Productions and Turks & Caicos Productions have provided worldwide locations and castings for 20 years. Each company provides an easy, no fuss production. "Our goal is to make the client happy as well as each person on the production."

Full service production is provided for still shoots, commercials, videos, TV and fashion shoots. This covers production budgets, sourcing and scouting locations, hiring crew, casting, equipment, logistics, transportation, customs, and more.

"With companies located in NYC, Turks & Caicos and West Hampton, we cover many facets of production and have contacts in every corner of the world. No location is too remote."

Beth Klein Productions is a full service production and consultation company based in Brooklyn, NY.

Beth's company brings over 16 years of unique experience in the photography industry. Her team has collaborated with a large variety of clients including Reserved, Numero, CFDA, NET-A-PORTER, Revlon, Vogue, Bazaar, L’Oréal, D&G, Akris, 7 Jeans, Versace, GantRugger, NINEWEST and many others.

Beth prides herself on servicing many foreign clients and their production companies. She carefully guides them to have both a wonderful and positive NYC experience.

"We excel at balancing the relationship of creating compelling media and facilitating the demands of creative directors and marketing executives. Hashtag your next campaign #NYC with Beth Klein Productions. We additionally offer services for clients in Miami, LA and Palm Springs."

As a creative intelligence company, Splashlight stands at the intersection of visual content and technology. The company’s deep photography and video production pedigree combined with its proprietary technology generates creative that is both visually stunning and integral to the commercial success of some of the world’s top fashion and retail brands.

The company employs a unique approach to strategic art buying and production planning whether the project be advertising, catalog, editorial, or eCommerce product photography. As a result, it has worked with an expansive portfolio of top fashion and retail brands, including ALDO, Bloomingdale’s, DavidYurman, DKNY, Macy’s, Target and Victoria’s Secret.

Academy Award nominated Luke Geissbühler is a master of natural light, framing and narrative storytelling. He has been a trusted cinematographer to the most beautiful women in the world for Victoria’s Secret for more than a decade. With over 25 feature films, 20 documentaries, and countless commercials to his name, his achievements include the renowned documentaries ‘Helvetica’ and 'Buck’, as well as Sacha Baron Cohen’s legendary 'Borat' and Patrick Stewart’s powerfully dramatic performance in 'Match’.

Luke unexpectedly became known the world over when he and his 8-year-old son sent a camera to near space in a homemade contraption as seen in the viral video 'Space Balloon’.

Raised by two Swiss graphic designers, Luke was taught the fundamentals of visual balance, shape and colour at an early age. A native New Yorker, self-taught engineer and NYU Tisch School graduate, he has excelled in blending together documentary and narrative approaches with wonderful results. Due to his vast experience and unique style, Luke has been called to every corner of the world to orchestrate complex shoots for OK Go, Adam McKay, The Muppets, Victoria's Secret, Nike, Amazon, Doug Liman, Barry Levinson, Katherine Bigelow and many, many others.

Australian-born photographer Mark Roskams started his career in the mid 80s when he began travelling the world and developing his interest in photographing architecture and design.

His work led him from New York to Florida, the Caribbean and Europe before he finally settled back in New York. His photographs have appeared in a wide variety of international magazines including AD Germany, France, Italy, Russia and China, as well as many others.

In 2011, his book of architecture and interiors 'Masseria - The Italian Farmhouses of Puglia' was published by Rizzoli International. During this time, Mark has crafted his style of using natural light to give structure and design to abstract shapes, working with form and colour to produce recognisable work.

Francesco Bittichesu specialises in advertising, people and landscape photography. Originally from Italy, he moved to New York City in 1995 where he started to work for magazines like GQ creating still life imagery.

From his studio in Manhattan, Francesco began making a name for himself by applying his conceptual thinking and photographic experimentation to the field of commercial image-making. With an intense understanding and constant experimentation with the properties of analog and digital photography, Bittichesu articulates the complexity and subtleties of the medium.

Brent Herrig specialises in photography for a range of food and cocktail clients in both the advertising and editorial worlds. He is a seasoned photographer based out of New York City with experience in video, editorial, publishing, advertising, packaging and more.

Brent’s food story started in the Midwest - Iowa to be exact. Growing up, he got to experience two distinct aspects of food: picking sweet corn and vegetables and taking care of animals on the farm, to serving customers as a soda jerk at an ice cream parlor.

On the one side, he got to see wholesome food - farm fresh vegetables grown and sold directly to the community. On the other, Brent got to see people enjoying moments in life fueled by food - how celebration and satisfaction collided in their mouth to light up their faces. This diversity of experiences gave Brent a great appreciation of food, which drives his work today.

Brent enjoys collaborating with clients from concept through post-production.

Visit his website or contact him directly to discuss your next project.

Whether it’s having eight minutes to capture Kate Winslet, or disarming road-weary rock stars, award-winning New York-based photographer Jayme Thornton feels his way into the tiny openings of insight that make great portraits.

Jens Johnson doesn’t take pictures - he creates them. Capturing the essence of a subject requires a thorough understanding of the product, its appeal, and what makes it distinctive. These are details he considers before even picking up his camera. These considerations result in the selection of support crew including prop stylists, food stylists, set builders, effects rigger and lighting design. The results are images that capture inspiration.

Specialising in product, food and beverage photography, Jens has committed the past 20 years to assisting numerous iconic brands distinguish themselves with compelling imagery. He has added motion productions to his skill set for the last four years.

Working with creative clients is what drives him. From Johnnie Walker and Absolut, to Pepsi-Cola and Coke, he has worked with numerous brands in a variety of consumer product industries.

Contact Jens today to see what he can create for you, and follow him on Instagram to keep updated on his latest projects.

David Arky is best known for his clean and crisp still life, conceptual and X-ray photography. He loves to create photographs with an eye to simplifying objects to their elemental qualities, depicting their form and texture.

Based in New York, David and his team also provide clients with concepts, sketches, set and prop design, and retouching services.

Born and raised in Southern California, Michael Scott Slosar took his first photography course in 7th grade and didn't stop there. After attending Northern Arizona University and Brooks Institute of Photography, he moved to Brooklyn, NY in 2002 to pursue his career in photography.

Michael loves to travel and be on the go, and gets restless if he stays in one place for too long. This is why he currently splits his time between NY and CA.

Michael wishes the world was still film and Polaroid and believes film is the new vinyl. He loves anything vintage, "classic", and/or antique and never misses a good BBQ!

Photographer Roger Neve is a true Gemini, loving fashion photography but able to capture the essence of any subject - even if they are not in designer clothes! His personality pushes the limits and his iconic photographs do the same.

He treats every job as an adventure, whether he is shooting a model in a hot air balloon over a herd of elephants or racing across the beach chasing his subject to get that perfect shot. He once broke his ankle leaning off a bridge to capture the light in just the right way.

Roger possesses a certain joie de vivre that translates directly to his work. Even on a few hours' sleep he manages to make it all happen with a smile on his face. A devout problem solver, he has talked his way out of many situations to get that perfect shot on the go when it was seemingly impossible. His technical consistency is unparalleled and clients would have a hard time finding a nicer guy to work with.

Lyubomir Sergeev, or Lubo for short, is a creator of the highest calibre: an award-winning digital artist, photographer, and impeccable visual storyteller, boasting a hauntingly beautiful, timeless, and seductive aesthetic. With 20 years of experience in advertising and high-end retouching, his conceptual genius and lust for creation truly make him a force to be reckoned with.

His work is exquisite, possessing an innate attention to detail where every nuance is accounted for, no drop of water or pop of colour left behind, leaving viewers in a constant state of awe. Lubo’s perfectionist planning is a talent in itself; a process that allows him to be involved at all levels of production - casting, location scouting, and art direction - making him a sought-after addition to any project.

John-Francis, an Irish citizen, originally worked in Paris before moving to New York City where he specalises in documentary-based lifestyle imagery. More specifically, his focus is an aspect of photography that involves storytelling and recording working lives through environmental images. Most of this work is commissioned through editorial or advertising assignments; the balance is partnering directly with global brands.

While the majority of the assignment work in now US based, John-Francis works regularly in Europe for UK and mainland European creatives.

“Fusion Fashion”. These are the words which best describe the personality of Lara Gerin. A stylist and DJ who is always in-tune with the worlds of fashion and music, Lara began her career as a model in the early 90s when the Brazilian fashion industry was gaining international recognition.

She lived in Europe and Asia modelling for top fashion brands before returning to Brazil, where she began working as a stylist alongside internationally acclaimed art director Giovanni Bianco.

Lara has worked with editorials and brands including L'Officiel, Vogue, SelectMagazine, KeyMagazine, BrideStyleMagazine, Rolling Stone, Ampersandheartny, TalieNK, LillySarti, and many others.

She is currently based in New York and works between Berlin and Zurich.

With over 30 years of video production experience, B Productions has been the premiere company for all live event video production in New York City. Each New York Fashion Week, B produces over 100 runway show video content and live streaming pieces.

This past spring 2016 season, B worked with Givenchy to provide an entire package of video content. Starting six weeks prior to the show, the company captured an interview with Marina Abramovich, rehearsals at her residence, a Givenchy flagship store opening on Madison Ave, behind the scenes leading up to the event, red carpet interviews, and multi-cam live coverage of the event and after-party - all to be presented in a short documentary for Givenchy to broadcast internationally.

Brooklyn New York’s full service and fully functional photo and film production facility, LightSpace Studios has massive drive-in cyclorama stages and 30’ ceiling clearances. In five studios, some sound insulated and some daylight, sunlight washes in through skylights and windows that wrap around the stages.

A pillar-less unobstructed space provides the most versatile environment for clients’ creative workflow. LightSpace Brooklyn Film and Photo Studios offers a large inventory of lighting, grip, camera, digital capture and a large crew roster to meet any production requirements. There is a full lighting grid on all stages with ample 3-phase, 600amp electricity.

The studios have hair and make-up suites, production offices, client lounges, mezzanine and green rooms, and are fully wet-capable for snow and rain indoor studio shoots. There is also a huge rooftop with panoramic views of Manhattan.

"Let LightSpace studios photo and film studios brooklyn simplify the means of making your creative vision a reality."

With 14’ ceilings, CYC, kitchen, lounges, in-house camera, digital and lighting gear, NEO is a proven favourite of demanding photographers, celebrities, producers and film crews worldwide. NEO has the feel of a small, elegant boutique hotel with the requisite production amenities.

The staff is friendly yet professional - focusing on providing exacting service and support for the most demanding of clients and celebrities. NEO is also the perfect venue to host select industry events: dinners, PR functions, editor reviews, fittings, seminars, openings, and more!

Overlooking the New York skyline, Pure Space is a private 5,000 square foot studio in the West Chelsea Gallery District convenient for the High Line and new Hudson Yards development. Featuring a full bank of windows, and northern natural light, views include the Hudson River, Empire State Building and Midtown.

Designed as a professional photography studio, including a cyclorama, Pure Space offers abundant flexible space, a dramatic entry gallery and a full professional kitchen making it the quintessential photo studio.

American Photographic Artists (APA) is a leading national organisation run by, and for, professional photographers. Recognised for its broad industry reach, APA works to champion the rights of photographers and image-makers worldwide.

APA offers outstanding benefits, educational programmes and essential business resources to help its members achieve their professional and artistic goals.

The prestigious APA Awards, with over $120,000 in prizes and respected industry judges, is open to all photographers (members and non, US and international). The call for entries is currently going on. Prizes are listed here.